Los Iracundos (The Wrathful Ones) were one of the biggest rocanrol acts in Latin America, and certainly the most prolific, cutting over forty LPs over the course of their career. This is from their fourth, self-titled album, cut in '67. The arrangements were obviously inspired by the early Bee Gees, and in fact, they do a pretty nice cover of "Got to Get a Message to You." A sweet record fair find.

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F/i

The Garden of Blanga in the Morning Dew

Blanga

Lexicon Devil

2005

CD

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Inga Rumpf and Dagmar Krause

Bhagavad Gita

I.D. Company

N/A

N/A

CD

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Taste

Blister on the Moon

Taste

Atco

1969

Vinyl

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Shirley Collins

The Cherry Tree Carol

Sweet England

See for Miles

1959

LP

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Pluto

Balinese Lady

The Field Recordings

Ecstatic Yod

2000

LP

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Los Pasteles Verdes

Hipocresia

Hipocresia

Orfeon

1978

LP

Album no. 2 from Peru's Pasteles Verdes. This song is typical of their style -- tight, reverb-drenched "rock" ballads -- though they also made some credible forays into disco and soul around this same time. The band was very popular throughout Latin America and L.A., but their greatest succes was in Mexico, where they relocated in '77 and were signed to the major label Orfeon. The band later became Los Angeles Negros.

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Slicing Grandpa

Pencil

Urination Crane

Slicing Grandpa

2005

7"

*

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Music behind DJ:Los Zafiros

La noche en tu mirada

Bossa Cubana

Nonesuch

2000

CD

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Herve Vilard

Un monde fait pour nous

Herve Vilard

Mercury

1966

LP

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Borbetomagus

Untitled

Barbed Wire Maggots

Agaric

2005

CD

Reissue of 1982 LP

*

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Porest

Mother of All Mistakes

Mood Noose

Resipiscent

2005

CD

*

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The Azuma Kabuki Musicians

O-Matsuribayashi

The Azuma Kabuki Musicians

Columbia

N/A

LP

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Hi Sheriffs of Blue

Cold Chills

Hi Sheriffs of Blue

Jimboco

1980

12"

Thanks to John Allen for the tip.

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Scott Walker

My Death

Scott

Fontana

1967

CD

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The Lewis and Clark Expedition

Why Must They Pretend?

VA - Soft Sounds for Gentle People, Vol. 2

Pet

2003

CD

1:30:27 ()

Music behind DJ:Los Zafiros

Mirame Fijo

Bossa Cubana

Nonesuch

2000

CD

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John Cale

Perfect

Black Acetate

EMI

2005

CD

*

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Eduardo Davidson

Dejame saber

Le Frisson

Pop Art

1967

LP

Another jaw-dropping record fair find. I'll post the cover here soon -- it must be seen to be believed. Davidson wrote screenplays for Cuban radio in the forties and early fifties before finding popularity as a dancer, singer and composer of dance music. Some credit him with inventing the "pachanga" dance rhythm, which became very popular with New York's Dominican community. He left Cuba in '62 and came to NYC, where he took a stab at sparking another dance trend with "Le Frisson,"
a concept record of sorts in which the concept is -- guess what? -- a dance step called "Le Frisson," or "the shiver." The record is outrageous. Backed by a hot Latin / rhythm and blues band and a choir, Davidson seemingly gets drunker and campier as the album progresses. Davidson was not the first openly queer singer in Latin American pop (see Bola de Nieve, for example), but he is arguably the most audacious, especially for his time. The record is one long, lascivious come-on. The music is always ever-so-slightly off-center in a "Corky's Debt to His Father" kind of way. Just listen to the backing vocals on this song! In the right state of mind, this almost sounds like a low-rent, tropical Sun Ra Arkestra. No joke.